I've been wondering: what are the Pastafarian oaths / profanities / blasphemies? I mean, not every day is all beer and strippers and "Yarrr, maties, doubloons for everyone!" What about when things are going really badly? "Aw, meatballs! Where did that saucin' thing come from?" Something like that?

More to the point, if you're going to blaspheme surely your should be blaspheming against other religions? That way you get the blasphemy without offending the Noodly One.

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? - Sir Terry Pratchett

The great thing about Beaker is his ability to provoke while still being decorous, or at least within acceptable rules of conduct - Qwertyuiopasd

I quite often swear by Richard Dawkins' left testicle, or else by the beard of Germaine Greer. If you like Douglas Adams, 'Zarking Fardwarks' is always a good one.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

A U.S. neopagan magazine once covered the 'fake swears' of new religions [with the 'Oh my Goddess' type being the most egregious of the lot, imho]. One of the contributors enjoyed saying, "Satan take my bicycle!" Another stuck with the tried-and-true classics, pointing out that if you're going to take the name of a deity in vain, why not stick to one you already really don't have any respect for, fer crisssakes?

I will honor Monkey in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.~Charles "Darwin" Dickens

daftbeaker wrote:More to the point, if you're going to blaspheme surely your should be blaspheming against other religions? That way you get the blasphemy without offending the Noodly One.

But that's not the usual pattern with other religions — people swear at/by their own deities. Or at least that's how the various Christian sects have usually done it, through many centuries. There's the Elizabethan cursing with their God's body parts: "[God]'s blood!", "[God]'s wounds!". More recently, "[God] damn it!", "Jesus H. Christ!", and so on; for Quebecois French Catholics, there are the church-based "tabernacle!" and "calice!", etc .